On BBC Midlands' Facebook page, Jackie Reed posted the photo above, saying: "These are four hoglets I found two weeks ago. They were terribly dehydrated and lapped up loads of water, now they are eating me out of house and home. When the weather breaks I'll release them where I found them."

And Jan Taffs wrote: "I am currently looking after mum and her four babies in one of my borders in the garden. They’re doing really well, eating and drinking well. So privileged to be able to be there for them in this hot weather."

Man's 'struggle' over taxi driver father's killing

In a statement, read out at Stafford Crown Court where the killers were sentenced earlier, Ibrar Mohammed described 51-year-old Ishfaq Hussain as "an amazing person, popular with his friends and the whole community".

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He said "every day is a struggle, I grieve every day" and "the void will never be filled".

Brandon Dowen, 19, and John Cox, 32, were convicted of Mr Hussain's killing at an earlier hearing. On Thursday they were each sentenced to six years in prison.

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More concessions to parking strategy

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Emily Lloyd

A day after protests in Shrewsbury and Ludlow, Shropshire councillors have agreed more amendments to their proposed parking strategy.

A meeting of the local authority's cabinet was told the changes had been made following talks with councillors in Ludlow and that free on-street parking there would start at 18:00, instead of the 20:00 previously proposed.

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Parking concessions have also been offered to Ludlow market traders.

Council leader Peter Nutting said it was proof they had "listened to people", but the Labour leader Alan Mosley called it a "dog's breakfast".

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New report leads to extension of hospital consultation

A public consultation on hospital services in Shropshire has been extended by a week after the publication of a new NHS report rejecting suggestions a new emergency hospital could be built in the county.

Some have argued it would instead be better to have emergency care at a new site in the centre of the county, but the idea has previously been dismissed by the Future Fit review as being too expensive.

The new report by Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust and the Future Fit review body is one of the reasons the consultation period being extended by another week, so people can take in the new information.

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Corbyn says Shropshire should have two full A&Es

Jeremy Corbyn says Shropshire should have two fully-functioning accident and emergency departments.

He made the comments during a visit to Telford yesterday, arguing there's enough demand to have A&E at both Shrewsbury and Telford.

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People in the county are being asked for their views on two different blueprints for the future of hospital care, with an NHS review body recommending Shrewsbury becomes Shropshire's only centre for emergency medicine, with Telford becoming a centre for planned care.

You have a big demand on hospital facilities in Shrewsbury, from obviously the immediate area, but there's also quite a big hinterland into mid-Wales. There's never going to be a huge hospital in mid-Wales, the population is too sparse, but they do need somewhere to go to. Also, bear in mind the increasing population, particularly in Telford, and it's likely to go on increasing, so the demand will be there."